Have you ever wondered if the sushis you eat at the local restaurants here are the same as the ones they eat in Japan? Have you ever tried to make sushis yourself but failed because they don't look or taste like or neither look nor taste like, well, the thing you would call sushi? Would you like to know how the Japanese came up with this idea of making delicious bite-size combi-food with rice and fish (or anything, well, some other thing you like)?

Well, here is an opportunity to meet the sushi artist Rei Ito from Tokyo in Bergen! Rei Ito is a real artist. He visualises his wife Chie's mesmerising fairytales with Japanese paper he hand-made from old shoji (sliding door) paper and wrapping paper. But Rei is also a real sushi chef. He and his wife are going to move to the second smallest country (population-wise) in the world - Niue, to work in a sushi restaurant. Because of his double identities, Rei always performs with the artist's delicacy and passion when he makes sushi.

If you'd like to know more about the story of Chie&Rei, please come to their event at the Bergen International Literary Festival

If you'd like to see the incredible paper art by Rei based on Chie's stories, please come to the exhibition at Northing Space

But if you are a big sushi fan and dream of making sushi with a sushi master from Japan. Don't miss the sushi workshop with Rei at Bergen Assembly.